Michio Kaku
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Dr. Michio Kaku (in Japanese, 加來 紀雄 or ミチオ・カク), born on January 24, 1947 in the USA, is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor and co-creator of string field theory, a branch of String Theory. Dr. Kaku received a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1968 where he was first in his physics class. He went on to the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972. In 1973 he held a lectureship at Princeton University. Today, Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 25 years and is engaged in work involving Einstein's "Theory of Everything," which seeks to unify the four fundamental forces of the universe—the strong force, the weak force, gravity and electromagnetism—into a single equation.
Dr. Kaku has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, as well as New York University.
Dr. Kaku is the author of several scholarly, Ph.D.-level textbooks and has had more than 70 articles published in physics journals covering topics such as superstring theory, supergravity, supersymmetry, and hadronic physics. Based on the number of citations his work has received in the academic literature, Kaku has an H Index of 22, which is respectable but significantly below that of top-tier theoretical physicists. He is better known as an author of nine popular books, including the best-sellers Beyond Einstein, Visions, Hyperspace, and Parallel Worlds.
He also appears as host and featured guest on radio and television programs, including Exploration, a weekly radio show on WBAI, a Pacifica radio station in New York City on science and ecology. The program is rebroadcast on some other stations, and can be streamed from the KPFA web site. Apart from his own show, Dr. Kaku is a frequent guest on radio and television programs such as the Larry King Show (radio as well as CNN-TV), Nightline, PBS's Nova and Innovation, 60 Minutes, Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM and Good Morning America. He was featured on the PBS documentaries Einstein Revealed, Stephen Hawking's Universe, and Science Odyssey. Other networks appearances include The Learning Channel's (TLC) Future Fantastic, as well as the BBC, TechTV (now G4TV), Coast To Coast AM and the SciFi Channel.
Bibliography
- Kaku, Michio. Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time. Orion, 2004. ISBN 0297847554
- —. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0192861891
- —. Introduction to Superstrings and M-Theory. Springer, 1999. ISBN 0387985891
- —. Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos. Gardners, 2004. ISBN 0713997281
- —. Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ISBN 0195076524
- —. Strings, Conformal Fields, and M-Theory. Springer, 1999. ISBN 0387988920
- —. Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0192880187
- Kaku, Michio and Jennifer Trainer Thompson. Beyond Einstein: Superstrings and the Quest for the Final Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0192861964
- Kaku, Micho and Daniel Axelrod. To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans. South End Press, 1987. ISBN 0896083217
External links
- Dr. Michio Kaku's web site
- "Exploration" Dr. Kaku's weekly radio show
- "Michio Kaku" (Coast to Coast show)
- "BBC interview"
- Nuclear Threats and the New World Order by Michio Kakuja:ミチオ・カク
